Thanks for the info to you and everyone else who replied. After sending my inquiry to the mail list I talked with the OSCN support personnel who informed me their server was having problems and that they were working on it. Your explanations were helpful though in my understanding of how to troubleshoot these types of error messages.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric "Shubes" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 2:10 PM > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] cannot establish SMTP connection > > > Steve Ingraham wrote: > > Below is an error message one of my users received today. > Can anyone > > explain to me what this means concerning the ". . .wasn't able to > > establish an SMTP connection"? Is this telling me there is > an issue > > with our qmail toaster or that the receiving server has an SMTP > > problem? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Steve > > > > ___________________ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 12:59 PM > > > > To: Molly Reid > > > > Subject: failure notice > > > > > > > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at > dellapp02.occa.state.ok.us. I'm > > afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following > > addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry > it didn't > > work out. > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. > (#4.4.1) I'm not > > going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long. > > > > > The message is indicating that your toaster wasn't able to > connect to the destination server. > > The destination server appears to be up now: > $ host -t MX oscn.net > oscn.net mail is handled by 10 mail.oscn.net. > $ telnet mail.oscn.net 25 > Trying 204.61.6.14... > Connected to mail.oscn.net (204.61.6.14). > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 okcmailex.oscn.net Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: > 6.0.3790.1830 ready at Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:04:02 -0600 quit > 221 2.0.0 okcmailex.oscn.net Service closing transmission > channel Connection closed by foreign host. $ > > The destination might have been down at the time. Try above > commands from your toaster. If it connects ok, have your user > try resending the message. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
